Here's how dictionary.com describes the term fascism: "A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." [Robert O. Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism," 2004]

If you have been kicking yourself for missing the lies in the President's build-up to war in Iraq, then now is the time to catch up with the bouncing ball on his plans for Iran.

Newsweek interview with Dennis Kucinich

Boy soldier

Reality of American support for Troops

Al Gore speaks

Makes the war in Iraq look small by comparison

A conversation with Walter Cronkite and Dennis Kucinich on his proposed Department of Peace

My Daily Bread

Children pay the tab?

Mariela's Road

When Jonny Came Home

New Temple built by Project GANESH!

Paul started a nonprofit organization a few years ago to sponsor the restoration of temples, education and economic development in Indian villages. Since 2004, Project GANESH has donated three village shrines, steps to a hilltop temple, school teacher salaries, benches, tables and other support, and a dining hall for a high school. Project GANESH also gave emergency food and shelter following the 2004 tsunami disaster, and later provided fishing nets to help restore villagers' livelihoods.

During his latest trip to India, Paul and his co-director, Richard Stocker, broke ground for a new shrine at an ancient temple complex in the village of Kadalur, in Tamil Nadu. This shrine will house a statue of Ganesh, the Hindu god of auspicious beginnings. The statue of Ganesh is currently sitting on the ground in another shrine because there was no building for it. This is a view of the nearly-completed shrine sponsored by Project GANESH.

To learn more about Project GANESH and how you can support its work in India, visit their web site at www.projectganesh.org

Joni

‘When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.’–Sinclair Lewis